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Re: Many consonants

From:Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
Date:Thursday, November 8, 2001, 20:08
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 23:09:41 -0000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
wrote:

>The stød is cognate with one of the tonal accents in Swedish; it seems >that Lithuanian has something similar,
I think you meant Latvian; Lithuanian tones (at least in the urban dialects) are different.
> which is called broken tone >(Brechton) there.
I. e., in Germany ;) Reportedly, the Vietnamese (of the North) identify Danish stød with one of their tones (4th, IIRC). Basilius